Abstract
A questionnaire survey of intellectual resources in the international cooperation in higher education for solving water and environmental issues was conducted on Japanese universities and institutes, and similar surveys of intellectual needs were conducted in five developing countries (China, Indonesia, Mongolia, Thailand and Tunisia). Objectives of these surveys are (1) to clarify worldwide cognitive structure of water and environmental issues, and (2) to investigate relationship between the resources and needs. Responses to the questionnaire were analyzed using quantification method of the third type, and a map of cognitive space of related keywords was constructed. This analysis suggested that water and environmental issues can be mainly decomposed into three end-members: pollution, disaster, and water use. Keywords, "environment conservation", "environmental education", "environmental assessment" and "ecosystem" are recognized as neutral ones, while the words associated with policy, such as "regional planning", "decision making" and "low making", are recognized to be closely related to water use. Projection of each sample of resources and needs on the cognitive space map showed unique distribution for each country. Hot spot of both resources and needs were formed at an area involving "water cycle", "environment conservation", and "decision making". On the other hand, although some needs for highly special pollutions and disasters existed, there were no resources that should correspond to them.
